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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 29/05/2026

I have re-purpled to prepare for #PEPR next week in Santa Clara!

The author, with long purple hair and an Untitled Goose Game T-shirt

J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 25/05/2026

Even as I figured for three decades it would be the most likely outcome, I am still surprised that my parents would jump straight to hatred for me, learning I'm nonbinary. And to claim that Christ would approve of their hate.

A mocked up XBox dialog that reads: "Achievement Unlocked: Get Kicked Out By Parents"

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 28/03/2026

The #Tempe #NoKings protest was quite sizable today! It certainly appeared that we wrapped around the whole ~2 mile marching path, with lots of drivers honking in support.

The Tempe Cole Park pedestrian bridge over the US-60, with protestors across it, photoed through chain link

Marching south along McClintock with protestors as far as the camera can see

Crossing the US-60 again half a mile from Cole Park. Again, solid protestors

My favorite sign of the say: No Kings (Except this guy: [pictures of Aragorn Elessar])

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 04/02/2026

The subscriber gift from @lookoutnews.bsky.social this time is a super nice custom bar of coffee and lavender soap. I dig it!!

A bar of coffee-colored soap with a ridged texture, sitting atop a pink and white spot bag labeled "Lavange par Lookout".

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 03/01/2026

Hey #MiniSquish, did you find my lost shaker of salt? Happy New Year from the little fox and his handler!

A small round fox sits atop a menu for Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville in Destin, FL

A small round fox sits atop a red sleigh with gold trim labeled "SC", with a harbor and wood stairs in the background

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 30/12/2025

I love my new weird Folgers Incest Commercial pin.

Pins on a bag: centered, a coffee mug that says "You're my PRESENT this year". Above it is an existing unicorn pin in the nonbinary pride flag colors. Below is a rainbow pin with the words "big fucking nerd" around it.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 02/11/2025

While definitely an emergency, classifying this one as an Extreme threat is just going to lead to lots of people shutting off all emergency alerts. Because it's 5:30a on a Sunday. Maybe this should have gone at the same severity as Amber? #arizona #sos #alert

An extreme-level wireless area alert, for a missing child. It is 5:30am.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 19/04/2025

Out at #TempeRising. I was surprised that I was the only bicyclist (parking a bike) when we got going, but about 30 cyclists arrived together from the north a few minutes ago. #Tempe

Protesters atop a pedestrian bridge over a busy freeway (US-60) holding pro-democracy signs.

The entrance to a pedestrian bridge, jammed with protesters

Protesters waiting to march onto the bridge

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 19/03/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 15/03/2025

Somewhat online now, but VLANs are still Todo. Now for the SFP+ Multimode fiber connection..

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 15/03/2025

Okay, looking better. Now I'm also putting in some extension plates, because this Mikrotik is too long for my little rack, but I'm well within load limits

Reassigned keystone jacks, distributed left

The labeled jacks, and the rack extenders outstretched

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 15/03/2025

No obvious manufacture date, but this was the switch I bought two months before we racked Let's Encrypt's first datacenter location, so that I could run everything locally on the same set of planned VLANs.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 15/03/2025

This morning, while the family is out, I am replacing my venerable core switch - a Netgear JGS516PE - with a new Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM

Old 16-port Netgear POE managed switch, installed, with a maze of cables

New 24+4 port Mikrotik switch, awaiting racking

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 16/01/2025

Over lunch I whipped up a quick sourdough discard soda bread to surprise my spouse when she flies back tonight. #BreadSky #sourdough

Two loaves of brown soda bread, kinda crumbly, honestly quite ugly. Why did I want to post this and show off ugly bread? The ugly breads sit atop a bamboo cutting board that needs to be oiled. Oof.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 01/01/2025

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensbroek Only 1300 people get to call chicken-pants their town heraldry.

A hen wearing golden pants on a red banner.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 24/12/2024

#MiniSquish has this covered, with the Evan Williams seasonal Kentucky Cider.

A plush fox rests atop a glass with ice and whiskey, next to a bottle of Kentucky Cider whiskey

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 23/12/2024

Holiday travel again, #MiniSquish? Haven't you learned not to do this on busy travel days?

A plush, round, orange fox in the foreground , and a Southwest Airlines boarding area filled with people in the background.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 09/11/2024

Today, this weekend, sourdough was inevitable. It was as necessary as air. #breadsky

Two baked boules (rounds) of sourdough bread, the one at the right a bit misshapen and crusted with a light dusting of flour around its ruptures, and the one on the left a perfect shape with criss-crossed cuts into its top

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 09/11/2024

We must bake until no Harkonnen breathes unleavened Arrakeen air. #bread #sourdough #breadsky

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 12/10/2024

Found a very industrious willet (Tringa semipalmata inornata) on the beach north of San Diego today #birding #nature #beach #sandpiper #bird #willet #cabirds

A sizeable sandpiper running in the surf of the Pacific Ocean, looking at the wet sand for food.

A sizeable sandpiper running left to right along the wet sand of the Pacific Ocean, a wave crashing just beyond it

A sizeable sandpiper standing in the water looking towards the camera, back towards the wet sand that isn't underwater, as the wave begins to recede.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 09/07/2024

Needing a break from the low desert summer, #MiniSquish has gone up to 2.2km altitude with rain, rivers, and a good book.

A plush fox with a Guinness and a copy of Becky Chambers' "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet"

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 16/04/2024

Where have you gone now, #MiniSquish? Those Nara deer want to eat you! Run, little fox!

A plush fox is investigated by a fuzzy brown deer

A different fuzzy brown deer tries to bite a plush fox

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 14/04/2024

Those are some beautiful temples, #MiniSquish: Chion-in and Kinkaku-ji. It's good to come back to Kyoto, especially when you're a little fox.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 11/04/2024

Now #MiniSquish needs coffee, cake, and cherry blossoms at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.

Plush fox at Hoshino Coffee, having finished his cup

Plush fox posing with a picturesque cherry tree in full bloom

Plush fox taking bites of a chocolate roll cake

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 11/04/2024

It's time for sushi at #Tsukiji, #MiniSquish. That's a lot of tuna for one small fox. And matcha!

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 10/04/2024

Today #MiniSquish made a trip to Sensō-ji and to the Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Keep rolling, little fox!

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 09/04/2024

I see you found Pong near the Shinjuku Crossing, #MiniSquish. Are you good at it?

A plush fox atop the controller of a 3D arcade version of Pong

A plush fox in front of the Shinjuku Crossing scramble that might be 33% full

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 09/04/2024

Hello again from #MiniSquish, who has found many small friends around Akihabara today and needed a rest at the best bar in Hiroo, Bond.

A small plush fox in the dispenser chute of a coin-toy machine.

A plush fox sits on a hat with a Firefox and Lets Encrypt pins in a bar.

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J.C., keeper of MiniSquish 🏳️‍⚧️ @insufficient.coffee · 07/04/2024

He flies around Arizona, plays Connect Four, meets other foxes, and loves twilight along the Spree.

MiniSquish atop a Cessna 182 in the pine country of Arizona

MiniSquish with Foxy, the Mozilla mascot

A plush fox looking at the river Spree in Berlin

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